Middle East

Iran Protest Toll Mounts as Government Stages Mass Rallies

This is Beirut 12/01 21:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

A violent crackdown on a wave of protests in Iran has killed at least 648 people, a rights group said on Monday, as Iranian authorities sought to regain control of the streets with mass nationwide rallies. The government's call for rallies in support of the Islamic republic drew thousands on Monday, a turnout supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ...

Op-edAfter Khamanei: What the Fall of Iran’s Regime Would Mean for the Region

Hussain Abdul-Hussain 12/01 16:25 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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The fall of Iran's Islamist regime would mark one of the most seismic shifts in Middle Eastern geopolitics since the 1979 Islamic Revolution that brought it to power. As massive protests grip the country, sparked by economic collapse and hyperinflation, the prospect of regime change grows more tangible. Unlike the 1979 revolution, which ushered ...

FM Raggi Denounces Hamas, Hezbollah Presence in Lebanon

This is Beirut 12/01 15:20 - Reading : less than a minute

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Lebanese Foreign Minister Youssef Raggi delivered a firm message to his Iranian counterpart, Abbas Araghchi, denouncing the involvement of Hamas and Hezbollah in Lebanon, in an interview with Sky News Arabia on Monday. According to Raggi, Hamas’s support for the war brought Lebanon “destruction, death, and suffering,” noting that the ...

EU Says Bloc Eyeing Sanctions on Iran

This is Beirut 12/01 15:05 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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The European Union is “looking into” imposing additional sanctions on Iran over the repression of protests throughout the country, the bloc said. “We are ready to propose new and tougher sanctions following the violent repression of demonstrators,” said the Union's foreign affairs spokesman, Anouar El ...

Israel Strikes Hezbollah Site in Southern Lebanon

This is Beirut 12/01 10:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Israel on Sunday evening struck a residential building in Kfar Hata in Saida, which lies north of the Litani River, claiming to strike an underground site used to store Hezbollah terrorist weapons. The building was inspected by the Lebanese Army and UN peacekeepers who disproved Israel’s claims that it was being used by Hezbollah. The ...

Syrian Forces Push Out Kurdish Fighters as U.S. Hits ISIS

This is Beirut 12/01 09:40 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Syrian government forces have detained 300 Kurds and evacuated more than 400 Kurdish fighters after clashes in Aleppo, the interior ministry has said, as U.S. and allied forces carried out separate “large-scale” strikes against Islamic State targets. An interior ministry official told Agence France-Presse that about 360 Kurdish ...

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Trump Says Iran Wants to "Negotiate"

This is Beirut 12/01 09:10 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that Iran’s leadership had called him seeking “to negotiate” after he repeatedly threatened to intervene militarily if Tehran killed protesters. He added, however, that the U.S. "may have to act before a meeting.” Trump has not elaborated on what the U.S. is considering, but said on Sunday that ...

U.S. Says Iran Deployed Foreign Militias to Quell Protests

This is Beirut 10/01 14:25 - Reading : less than a minute

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The United States said on Saturday it was concerned by reports that the Iranian regime had resorted to foreign fighters to suppress peaceful protests inside the country. In a message published in Persian on X, the U.S. State Department said that members of Hezbollah and Iraqi militias had allegedly been deployed against demonstrators. Washington ...

New Rallies in Iran as Son Of Shah Calls for City Centers to be Seized

This is Beirut 10/01 12:35 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Major Iranian cities were gripped overnight by new mass rallies denouncing the Islamic republic, as the son of the ousted Shah urged protesters on Saturday to plan to seize city centers. The two weeks of protests have posed one of the biggest challenges to the theocratic authorities who have ruled Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution, although ...

Syrian Army Says Controls Aleppo District, Kurdish Forces Deny Claim

This is Beirut 10/01 12:15 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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Syria's army said it had completed a "security sweep" on Saturday of a neighborhood in Aleppo where it clashed with Kurdish forces, who denied losing control of the area after defying calls to surrender. Government forces began striking the Sheikh Maqsud district overnight after a deadline elapsed for Kurdish fighters to withdraw during a ...

Syria Army Warns Will Strike Kurdish District of Aleppo: State Media

This is Beirut 09/01 20:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Syria's army warned on Friday it would renew attacks against a Kurdish-majority district of Aleppo and urged residents to evacuate, state media reported, hours after a ceasefire was announced. The army said it would target military sites used by Kurdish fighters in the Sheikh Maqsud district, in statements published by state news agency SANA ...

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Qassem: Hezbollah to Continue "Cooperation" With LAF to Expel "Occupation"

This is Beirut 09/01 19:35 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

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Hezbollah Secretary General Naim Qassem met with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Friday in Lebanon, where the two discussed cooperation with the Lebanese Armed Forces “to expel the occupation” and reconstruction efforts. According to a statement by Hezbollah, Qassem talked about “the continuation of the ...